Yes, there is. Kodi handles it natively. You can also configure it to go straight to the main feature, but be able to call up the menu as or where desired. MKV format is rather handy for this sort of thing over ISO. I like keeping all of the different audio tracks, subtitles, etc in one file rather than a bunch of them.
MakeMKV for ripping.
I also use Media Center Master to rename the files, metadata tag them from a couple of sources (IMDB being primary), download artwork, etc. It makes using kodi actually pretty handy. Including some weird niche requirements. Say, finding all movies from the 80's for "Bad 80's Movies Night". Or being able to sort for the worst movies in my collection.
I do actually buy DVDs rather than torrent. $1 movie bins make for cheap entertainment.
Spoke with Jason at HOPE a couple weeks back. This came up tangentially. He's a nice guy, and an interesting personality.
They had to recode big sections of MAME for functionality but so getting the code licensed correctly. Some of it is actually securing rights from copyright owners. They've been contacting hundreds of copyright holders and securing permissions. Part of it is also they get leeway as the Internet Archives is a registered library. Registered libraries get perks when it comes to lending out copyrighted material.
It's all a LOT of legwork and they're doing a lot more than posting ROM dumps. And they're doing an insanely lot of very very deep emulation work to preserve as much as possible that is not obvious. It is very much ridiciously detailed archivist work. Which is hilarious because a lot of more academia archivists (think folks with master degrees or even PhDs in library sciences) are pissed that the Internet Archives folks call themselves archivists.
I collected data with a calibrated geiger counter and wrote a paper on it. Admittedly in High School. I grew up near Three Mile Island. By "near", I mean, I could literally see it every day. Naturally, it was kinda mentioned in school quite a few times. One of the projects was literally going to the location where the the damaged reactor was removed, near the live reactor, across the river at the visitor/training center. I also included data points from my house. Radiation was near background. Close enough it was within the error of margin of a pretty decent geiger counter. Even within literal stone's throw from the worst civil nuclear incident in American history.
Because I wanted to do something bit different, I also included data from a coal plant and an incinerator down the river a couple miles. Incinerator was less radioactive than a smoke alarm. New facility, they filter the hell out of the output and check for that sort of thing. In case someone tosses a load of smoke alarms in their trash, as one example they mentioned. Coal plant was older and put off (from memory, so give me a bit of leeway) roughly between 3x and 5x background downwind. This was due to uranium and thorium traces in the coal. Very very tiny amounts. But builds up when you're burning a lot of coal. I didn't do an extremely through pattern, it was every quarter mile of a road for like two miles. Coal plant verified, and explained it was within allowed levels and they do have radiation monitors to shut things down if it went too high. There was actually a lot of cooperation between the local coal plants and TMI out of necessity as coal plants in the area can set off extremely sensitive internal alarms at TMI.
I probably realize I sound overly enthusiastic about nuclear power, but having grown up nearing the radiation alarms being tested every noon on Saturday for several years, I'm well aware of the potential risk.
The USAF ref I made was Constant Phoenix. Buddy of mine I know was formerly a pilot of it. His job was to fly through a nuclear weapon plume. Mostly they flew downwind from countries being suspected of developing rogue nuclear weapons. Obviously NK, but other countries as well. US coal plants were better than most back in his day, and better now. Other countries do not filter NEARLY as well, and shot out insane amount of uranium and thorium into the air in fly ash plumes. Obviously an aircraft designed to find signs of underground nuclear testing could see it, as it was designed for that specific purpose. So, they could and did navigate using it.
Historically, solar is 5x more lethal than nuclear power. If you include Chernobyl.
If you count US only, solar is roughly 4000x more lethal than nuclear.
In the US, apparently coal is 100,000x more lethal than nuclear power. And 50x less lethal than hydro.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nukes get more press because radiation is scary as it is invisible. Invisible threats are more unnerving than ones we're familiar with. Pools killing thousands per year? Meh. It's a pool. People falling off roofs? Well, it happens. And in more proper fairness, it can make an area dangerous for a lengthy amount of time. It's probably not a good idea to explain coal plants put out significantly more radiation than nuclear plants.
Hilariously, according to old USAF buddy, a certain airborne radiation monitoring planes could and did navigate based off radiation plumes from coal plants.
Ah. No. There is no way you could strip 90% of the jobs in the US and not have things fall apart very quickly. While yes, only a handful are needed for direct ag labor, you need a huge pyramid of people to support those ag labor. People who build the equipment, people who maintain it, the entire petrochemical industry, the entire chemical industry, infrastructure people, you name it. Even farm hands need to run to the store to pick up stuff, so you'd need supermarkets, places like Lowes or Tractor Supply, etc.
Automation is nowhere NEAR being able to replace a busted water main, fix a downed power line or fill in potholes in the road. 50% is the closer number for the next couple of decades.
I volunteer for things too, because I enjoy doing so. If it became compulsory public service, I certainly would not. Here in the US, we have an amendment that ended slavery that specifically forbids involuntary servitude. Which is what that would be.
Oddly enough, listening to a podcast (Revolutions) where that compulsory unpaid public service was a huge grievance against the French monarchy. Apparently it was common under many feudal governments, and typically ended by revolution or governments wanting to head off revolutions.
Telecoms are big business, understand to regularly bribe politicians and typically have friendly endless court battles. Local and state governments can and will be overruled by federal courts. This has kinda be the way of things for decades. We pay telecoms substantial amounts to built broadband, in tax revenue. They don't spend the money. Or rather, they spend the money on everything except for broadband. They charge through the nose for relatively modest bandwidth (saving money on their backend). And then repeat.
Municipal ISPs can provide gigabit fiber, often with a backup of mesh WiFi of many/most areas, for very modest rates. Majority of the time it's not city employees doing the work, it's some outside small ISP doing everything. And they still pull a modest but respectable profit.
Until we reform the laws, which means addressing the corruption issues, the bandwidth picture is not going to change. Hell, you don't even need to do THAT. Just force telecoms to justify the money that they are given from taxes. It'd be hilariously easy to charge them with fraud.
Robo-co-pilot is much more likely than no-pilot aircraft. They were working on it when I was at Sikorsky. Based off some of the tech we developed essentially to keep an aircraft stable in hover. Basically just slightly smarter autopilot.
Aircraft tend to lag technology by a couple decades. The day you can see a driverless car on a normal road under normal circumstances? Figure 20 years after that that passenger service aircraft will be rated for no-pilot cert from the FAA. Another decade or two for it to be accepted widely, as airframes tend to stick around.
So we're still roughly 30-40 years away from automation taking away pilots. Technology could exist today perfect, there's just that much lag time built into aerospace due to a lot of reasons. Largely regulatory, but not entirely.
They're only paid flight hours, unless salary or contract. There's a bit more to the process than just hopping in the plane and taking off. Figure twice as many 'unpaid' hours as actual flight hours for more realistic estimate. So, that $50/hour job is closer to $15-25 in realistic terms.
There's also the problem of FAA mandated flight hours before you can get an ATP. It's 1500 hours of flight time, or was back when I did that sort of thing. Also, you can't just spend that time as the FO anymore. You need 1500 hours to sit in the other seat as well, not the 250 previously. That makes it hugely difficult. That's a minimum of $100k in training costs, and the pilot could flunk a medical at any time through no fault of their own.
It's not just whiny corps. They didn't help by failing to address this a decade ago.
$20-30 per flight hour. Cut the rate in half or by two thirds to more accurately reflect true payrate of the total number of hours worked. Easy to calculate. Max flight hours per year is 1000. Or was back when I worked aerospace industry. $20 per hour means absolutely max of $20,000 per year, if paid by flight hour which most pilots are unless salary.
Na. It's geared around FAA requirements, and pretty much the expectation that you're either a former military pilot or are willing to near starve working for tiny places to rack up the hours.
1000 flight hours charitably will cost $200,000 at $200/hour plane rental cost. For a Piper Arrow. For a smaller Cessna, half that. That's still not an insignificant investment. Oh, and every pilot is one busted medical away from being unemployable. Potentially forever as pilot.
Not sure what he's basing his statement on, but I worked for five years at an aerospace manufacturing company and worked with numerous pilots. Test pilots, charter pilots, transit pilots, corporate pilots, medevac pilots, some airline pilots. He is correct. It varies, but most places pay by flight hours. Airlines near always pay by flight hour There's a lot not covered in those flight hours. The rate is set to semi accurately reflect those hours. $50 per flight hour sounds good, but that caps you at $50k/yr due to FAA regulations on max flight hours.
It's entirely possible to fly from point A to point B with say... 4 flight hours in the air. With two hours of pre-flight, two hour flight, hour ish of post, 12 hours of sitting around, two hour pre-flight, two hours of flying, hopefully half an hour to and hour post, then home to hopefully sleep in your own bed. That's 4 hours of pay for 10-22 hours of work depending how you count it.
Being a commercial pilot sucks until you rack up seniority. If you're not former military pilot, the system is entirely rigged against you to the point you're near insane enough to try.
Same way hydrogen in the sun is renewable. It's not. The hydrogen fusing into helium isn't being recreated. It's spent. You cannot make more hydrogen (as far as we know).
But on human time scales, it might as well be, so folks use the terminology. I was most kidding, but it is true. Rain strip mines the entire world. This washes down into the ocean. We can strain out the bits we want at minimal environmental cost. Erosion repeats the process. This is absolutely sustainable over the course of billions of years. And your supply is renewed via natural processes.
Same way hydrogen in the sun is renewable. It's not. The hydrogen fusing into helium isn't being recreated.
But on human time scales, it might as well be, so folks use the terminology. I was most kidding, but it is true. Rain strip mines the entire world. This washes down into the ocean. We can strain out the bits we want at minimal environmental cost. Erosion repeats the process. For the next billion years.
Also, thorium also exists. It's more of a pain in the neck. But roughly double or quadruple the uranium numbers, and that'd give you the thorium numbers. So, we're good with nuclear fuel for thousands of years with known current technology. Economic pricing is a different subject.
I'm not saying there aren't other issues with nuclear power. Just fuel sustainability is not one.
Hydrogen fusing into helium isn't sustainable on stellar scales either. Eventually we'll have the heat death of the universe.
On human scales, the sun isn't going to run out of hydrogen and we're not going to run out of uranium. For the next couple of billion years anyways.
We may outpace the method of production. Uranium is renewed through soil erosion, as I mentioned before. At an extremely rough guess (0.84 * (6*10^21) * (2.1*10^-8)) there is approximately 10^14 tons of uranium on the planet earth. Or 100,000,000,000,000 tons. Which sounds like a lot, but not compared to the 600,000,0000,000,000,000,000 tons of the planet.
Only a tiny fraction of that 10^14 tons is accessible, but it is constantly being exposed, eroded, and settling back to the earth. We can harvest probably couple tens of millions of tons of uranium if we really needed. 10 metric tons of natural uranium go into producing a metric ton of LEU, so figure we'd get single digits millions of tons of uranium processed into LEU. We currently use about 50 thousand metric tons per year. Currently, but even multiplying that number by any reasonable amount, we're not gonna put a dent in that 10^14. We KNOW we can harvest uranium from seawater. It's just currently/previously cheaper to conventionally mine. Now it's cheaper than we thought. And we previously had 240 ish years of proven reserves.
tl;dr = Earth is really really big. With a lot of surface. And erosion is nature's strip mining. We can advantage of that for an extremely long time.
Uranium is a sustainable and renewable resource. The world's oceans have about 4.5 billion tons of uranium at any given time, and it's renewed via erosion. You're obviously only going to get a fraction of that, and you hit deminishing returns. But tens of millions of tons per year is practical, as the mining is basically running seawater over acrylic yarn. You can reuse the yarn, as well.
At current growth curve, it gives us hundreds to thousands of years. We also have couple thousand years worth of thorium as well.
Currently there are 4.5 billion tons of uranium in the world's seawater at any given time. This is renewed via erosion. Obviously it's an economics issue for recovering metal from seawater, but folks are already working on it. U.S. Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory already is using acrylic fiber (basically yarn) to harvest. They estimate it'll be similar in costs to land mining, and you can reuse the fibers for other purposes. There's also other less efficient stuff, mostly developed from seawater gold harvesting. So, yes, hilariously, nuclear power is sustainable and renewable. Go figure.
We could outpace seawater uranium mining, but it'd take about a thousand years. This ignores the world's thorium reserves. There's 2 or 3 billion tons of that around too. If we can't figure out fusion within a couple thousand years, we have other issues.
You do realize that Puerto Rico has done its own votes and so far has stayed a territory of the US, of its own accord? There is zero interest in keeping PR part of the US against their will. Mostly this is due to corruption and debt issues, and we really don't want to bail them out of repeated mistakes.
There is only one major exploitation going on, which is that all ships must be US flagged (Merchant Marine Act of 1920). Trump waved this.
No worries. My personal experience has always been the opposite. Apps was always the special snowflakes that got treated well, ops was the one stuck working holidays and terrible hours implementing. Not saying I'm perfect and I've tried to support with apps/dev/etc, but sometimes you're stuck being the bad cop or mean parent. "No you can't have X" usually means there's no budget or management buyoff.
I have no problems believing IT can be arrogant gits, but remember, sometimes they're being forced into being the bad guy because they have to implement someone else's policy or budget constraints. Give them an extra benefit of the doubt. If they are being idiots, then they're idiots.
While I concur your ops guys are either dinosaurs or morons, I can speak up for ops guys as well. We live with dev mistakes. Every time a dev team unnecessarily demands their app run as local admin, or dump its executables in weird places, or have byzantine config files, or have crap logging/eventing, or is so slow you know it has to be crap code, etc.
Good DevOps requires people to be good at Dev and Ops. That's still exceedingly rare. Ops is the easier of the two, but not THAT much easier.
Larger area than you think. The planet is going around the sun is 940 million km, per orbit. So, just shy of a billion km. And the solar system is moving. So they have roughly a helix of 14 billion kilometers worth of data. That's... not insignificant data.
Tiny tiny tiny drop in the bucket, but it's a start. A good start for our current level of technology. The positive results are not show stopping. Negative results would have changed most of our understanding of the universe.
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Yes, there is. Kodi handles it natively. You can also configure it to go straight to the main feature, but be able to call up the menu as or where desired. MKV format is rather handy for this sort of thing over ISO. I like keeping all of the different audio tracks, subtitles, etc in one file rather than a bunch of them.
MakeMKV for ripping.
I also use Media Center Master to rename the files, metadata tag them from a couple of sources (IMDB being primary), download artwork, etc. It makes using kodi actually pretty handy. Including some weird niche requirements. Say, finding all movies from the 80's for "Bad 80's Movies Night". Or being able to sort for the worst movies in my collection.
I do actually buy DVDs rather than torrent. $1 movie bins make for cheap entertainment.
Spoke with Jason at HOPE a couple weeks back. This came up tangentially. He's a nice guy, and an interesting personality.
They had to recode big sections of MAME for functionality but so getting the code licensed correctly. Some of it is actually securing rights from copyright owners. They've been contacting hundreds of copyright holders and securing permissions. Part of it is also they get leeway as the Internet Archives is a registered library. Registered libraries get perks when it comes to lending out copyrighted material.
It's all a LOT of legwork and they're doing a lot more than posting ROM dumps. And they're doing an insanely lot of very very deep emulation work to preserve as much as possible that is not obvious. It is very much ridiciously detailed archivist work. Which is hilarious because a lot of more academia archivists (think folks with master degrees or even PhDs in library sciences) are pissed that the Internet Archives folks call themselves archivists.
First hand collected scientific data.
I collected data with a calibrated geiger counter and wrote a paper on it. Admittedly in High School. I grew up near Three Mile Island. By "near", I mean, I could literally see it every day. Naturally, it was kinda mentioned in school quite a few times. One of the projects was literally going to the location where the the damaged reactor was removed, near the live reactor, across the river at the visitor/training center. I also included data points from my house. Radiation was near background. Close enough it was within the error of margin of a pretty decent geiger counter. Even within literal stone's throw from the worst civil nuclear incident in American history.
Because I wanted to do something bit different, I also included data from a coal plant and an incinerator down the river a couple miles. Incinerator was less radioactive than a smoke alarm. New facility, they filter the hell out of the output and check for that sort of thing. In case someone tosses a load of smoke alarms in their trash, as one example they mentioned. Coal plant was older and put off (from memory, so give me a bit of leeway) roughly between 3x and 5x background downwind. This was due to uranium and thorium traces in the coal. Very very tiny amounts. But builds up when you're burning a lot of coal. I didn't do an extremely through pattern, it was every quarter mile of a road for like two miles. Coal plant verified, and explained it was within allowed levels and they do have radiation monitors to shut things down if it went too high. There was actually a lot of cooperation between the local coal plants and TMI out of necessity as coal plants in the area can set off extremely sensitive internal alarms at TMI.
I probably realize I sound overly enthusiastic about nuclear power, but having grown up nearing the radiation alarms being tested every noon on Saturday for several years, I'm well aware of the potential risk.
The USAF ref I made was Constant Phoenix. Buddy of mine I know was formerly a pilot of it. His job was to fly through a nuclear weapon plume. Mostly they flew downwind from countries being suspected of developing rogue nuclear weapons. Obviously NK, but other countries as well. US coal plants were better than most back in his day, and better now. Other countries do not filter NEARLY as well, and shot out insane amount of uranium and thorium into the air in fly ash plumes. Obviously an aircraft designed to find signs of underground nuclear testing could see it, as it was designed for that specific purpose. So, they could and did navigate using it.
Historically, solar is 5x more lethal than nuclear power. If you include Chernobyl.
If you count US only, solar is roughly 4000x more lethal than nuclear.
In the US, apparently coal is 100,000x more lethal than nuclear power. And 50x less lethal than hydro.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nukes get more press because radiation is scary as it is invisible. Invisible threats are more unnerving than ones we're familiar with. Pools killing thousands per year? Meh. It's a pool. People falling off roofs? Well, it happens. And in more proper fairness, it can make an area dangerous for a lengthy amount of time. It's probably not a good idea to explain coal plants put out significantly more radiation than nuclear plants.
Hilariously, according to old USAF buddy, a certain airborne radiation monitoring planes could and did navigate based off radiation plumes from coal plants.
Ah. No. There is no way you could strip 90% of the jobs in the US and not have things fall apart very quickly. While yes, only a handful are needed for direct ag labor, you need a huge pyramid of people to support those ag labor. People who build the equipment, people who maintain it, the entire petrochemical industry, the entire chemical industry, infrastructure people, you name it. Even farm hands need to run to the store to pick up stuff, so you'd need supermarkets, places like Lowes or Tractor Supply, etc.
Automation is nowhere NEAR being able to replace a busted water main, fix a downed power line or fill in potholes in the road. 50% is the closer number for the next couple of decades.
I volunteer for things too, because I enjoy doing so. If it became compulsory public service, I certainly would not. Here in the US, we have an amendment that ended slavery that specifically forbids involuntary servitude. Which is what that would be.
Oddly enough, listening to a podcast (Revolutions) where that compulsory unpaid public service was a huge grievance against the French monarchy. Apparently it was common under many feudal governments, and typically ended by revolution or governments wanting to head off revolutions.
Telecoms are big business, understand to regularly bribe politicians and typically have friendly endless court battles. Local and state governments can and will be overruled by federal courts. This has kinda be the way of things for decades. We pay telecoms substantial amounts to built broadband, in tax revenue. They don't spend the money. Or rather, they spend the money on everything except for broadband. They charge through the nose for relatively modest bandwidth (saving money on their backend). And then repeat.
Municipal ISPs can provide gigabit fiber, often with a backup of mesh WiFi of many/most areas, for very modest rates. Majority of the time it's not city employees doing the work, it's some outside small ISP doing everything. And they still pull a modest but respectable profit.
Until we reform the laws, which means addressing the corruption issues, the bandwidth picture is not going to change. Hell, you don't even need to do THAT. Just force telecoms to justify the money that they are given from taxes. It'd be hilariously easy to charge them with fraud.
Robo-co-pilot is much more likely than no-pilot aircraft. They were working on it when I was at Sikorsky. Based off some of the tech we developed essentially to keep an aircraft stable in hover. Basically just slightly smarter autopilot.
Aircraft tend to lag technology by a couple decades. The day you can see a driverless car on a normal road under normal circumstances? Figure 20 years after that that passenger service aircraft will be rated for no-pilot cert from the FAA. Another decade or two for it to be accepted widely, as airframes tend to stick around.
So we're still roughly 30-40 years away from automation taking away pilots. Technology could exist today perfect, there's just that much lag time built into aerospace due to a lot of reasons. Largely regulatory, but not entirely.
They're only paid flight hours, unless salary or contract. There's a bit more to the process than just hopping in the plane and taking off. Figure twice as many 'unpaid' hours as actual flight hours for more realistic estimate. So, that $50/hour job is closer to $15-25 in realistic terms.
There's also the problem of FAA mandated flight hours before you can get an ATP. It's 1500 hours of flight time, or was back when I did that sort of thing. Also, you can't just spend that time as the FO anymore. You need 1500 hours to sit in the other seat as well, not the 250 previously. That makes it hugely difficult. That's a minimum of $100k in training costs, and the pilot could flunk a medical at any time through no fault of their own.
It's not just whiny corps. They didn't help by failing to address this a decade ago.
$20-30 per flight hour. Cut the rate in half or by two thirds to more accurately reflect true payrate of the total number of hours worked. Easy to calculate. Max flight hours per year is 1000. Or was back when I worked aerospace industry. $20 per hour means absolutely max of $20,000 per year, if paid by flight hour which most pilots are unless salary.
Na. It's geared around FAA requirements, and pretty much the expectation that you're either a former military pilot or are willing to near starve working for tiny places to rack up the hours.
1000 flight hours charitably will cost $200,000 at $200/hour plane rental cost. For a Piper Arrow. For a smaller Cessna, half that. That's still not an insignificant investment. Oh, and every pilot is one busted medical away from being unemployable. Potentially forever as pilot.
Not sure what he's basing his statement on, but I worked for five years at an aerospace manufacturing company and worked with numerous pilots. Test pilots, charter pilots, transit pilots, corporate pilots, medevac pilots, some airline pilots. He is correct. It varies, but most places pay by flight hours. Airlines near always pay by flight hour There's a lot not covered in those flight hours. The rate is set to semi accurately reflect those hours. $50 per flight hour sounds good, but that caps you at $50k/yr due to FAA regulations on max flight hours.
It's entirely possible to fly from point A to point B with say... 4 flight hours in the air. With two hours of pre-flight, two hour flight, hour ish of post, 12 hours of sitting around, two hour pre-flight, two hours of flying, hopefully half an hour to and hour post, then home to hopefully sleep in your own bed. That's 4 hours of pay for 10-22 hours of work depending how you count it.
Being a commercial pilot sucks until you rack up seniority. If you're not former military pilot, the system is entirely rigged against you to the point you're near insane enough to try.
Was anyone expecting otherwise?
Same way hydrogen in the sun is renewable. It's not. The hydrogen fusing into helium isn't being recreated. It's spent. You cannot make more hydrogen (as far as we know).
But on human time scales, it might as well be, so folks use the terminology. I was most kidding, but it is true. Rain strip mines the entire world. This washes down into the ocean. We can strain out the bits we want at minimal environmental cost. Erosion repeats the process. This is absolutely sustainable over the course of billions of years. And your supply is renewed via natural processes.
Same way hydrogen in the sun is renewable. It's not. The hydrogen fusing into helium isn't being recreated.
But on human time scales, it might as well be, so folks use the terminology. I was most kidding, but it is true. Rain strip mines the entire world. This washes down into the ocean. We can strain out the bits we want at minimal environmental cost. Erosion repeats the process. For the next billion years.
Also, thorium also exists. It's more of a pain in the neck. But roughly double or quadruple the uranium numbers, and that'd give you the thorium numbers. So, we're good with nuclear fuel for thousands of years with known current technology. Economic pricing is a different subject.
I'm not saying there aren't other issues with nuclear power. Just fuel sustainability is not one.
Hydrogen fusing into helium isn't sustainable on stellar scales either. Eventually we'll have the heat death of the universe.
On human scales, the sun isn't going to run out of hydrogen and we're not going to run out of uranium. For the next couple of billion years anyways.
We may outpace the method of production. Uranium is renewed through soil erosion, as I mentioned before. At an extremely rough guess (0.84 * (6*10^21) * (2.1*10^-8)) there is approximately 10^14 tons of uranium on the planet earth. Or 100,000,000,000,000 tons. Which sounds like a lot, but not compared to the 600,000,0000,000,000,000,000 tons of the planet.
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (they helpfully include mass)
Only a tiny fraction of that 10^14 tons is accessible, but it is constantly being exposed, eroded, and settling back to the earth. We can harvest probably couple tens of millions of tons of uranium if we really needed. 10 metric tons of natural uranium go into producing a metric ton of LEU, so figure we'd get single digits millions of tons of uranium processed into LEU. We currently use about 50 thousand metric tons per year. Currently, but even multiplying that number by any reasonable amount, we're not gonna put a dent in that 10^14. We KNOW we can harvest uranium from seawater. It's just currently/previously cheaper to conventionally mine. Now it's cheaper than we thought. And we previously had 240 ish years of proven reserves.
tl;dr = Earth is really really big. With a lot of surface. And erosion is nature's strip mining. We can advantage of that for an extremely long time.
Uranium is a sustainable and renewable resource. The world's oceans have about 4.5 billion tons of uranium at any given time, and it's renewed via erosion. You're obviously only going to get a fraction of that, and you hit deminishing returns. But tens of millions of tons per year is practical, as the mining is basically running seawater over acrylic yarn. You can reuse the yarn, as well.
At current growth curve, it gives us hundreds to thousands of years. We also have couple thousand years worth of thorium as well.
Oceans.
Currently there are 4.5 billion tons of uranium in the world's seawater at any given time. This is renewed via erosion. Obviously it's an economics issue for recovering metal from seawater, but folks are already working on it. U.S. Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory already is using acrylic fiber (basically yarn) to harvest. They estimate it'll be similar in costs to land mining, and you can reuse the fibers for other purposes. There's also other less efficient stuff, mostly developed from seawater gold harvesting. So, yes, hilariously, nuclear power is sustainable and renewable. Go figure.
We could outpace seawater uranium mining, but it'd take about a thousand years. This ignores the world's thorium reserves. There's 2 or 3 billion tons of that around too. If we can't figure out fusion within a couple thousand years, we have other issues.
You do realize that Puerto Rico has done its own votes and so far has stayed a territory of the US, of its own accord? There is zero interest in keeping PR part of the US against their will. Mostly this is due to corruption and debt issues, and we really don't want to bail them out of repeated mistakes.
There is only one major exploitation going on, which is that all ships must be US flagged (Merchant Marine Act of 1920). Trump waved this.
No worries. My personal experience has always been the opposite. Apps was always the special snowflakes that got treated well, ops was the one stuck working holidays and terrible hours implementing. Not saying I'm perfect and I've tried to support with apps/dev/etc, but sometimes you're stuck being the bad cop or mean parent. "No you can't have X" usually means there's no budget or management buyoff.
I have no problems believing IT can be arrogant gits, but remember, sometimes they're being forced into being the bad guy because they have to implement someone else's policy or budget constraints. Give them an extra benefit of the doubt. If they are being idiots, then they're idiots.
While I concur your ops guys are either dinosaurs or morons, I can speak up for ops guys as well. We live with dev mistakes. Every time a dev team unnecessarily demands their app run as local admin, or dump its executables in weird places, or have byzantine config files, or have crap logging/eventing, or is so slow you know it has to be crap code, etc.
Good DevOps requires people to be good at Dev and Ops. That's still exceedingly rare. Ops is the easier of the two, but not THAT much easier.
Larger area than you think. The planet is going around the sun is 940 million km, per orbit. So, just shy of a billion km. And the solar system is moving. So they have roughly a helix of 14 billion kilometers worth of data. That's... not insignificant data.
Tiny tiny tiny drop in the bucket, but it's a start. A good start for our current level of technology. The positive results are not show stopping. Negative results would have changed most of our understanding of the universe.